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21 a“Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.  
22 And ayou will be hated by all for My name’s sake. bBut he who endures to the end will be saved.  
23 aWhen they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have bgone through the cities of Israel cbefore the Son of Man comes.  
24 a“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.  
25 It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If athey have called the master of the house1 Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!  
26 Therefore do not fear them. aFor there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.  

Jesus Teaches the Fear of God

27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, aspeak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.  
28 aAnd do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather bfear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in1 hell.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Matthew 10:23

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another—"into the other." This, though applicable to all time, and exemplified by our Lord Himself once and again, had special reference to the brief opportunities which Israel was to have of "knowing the time of His visitations."

for verily I say unto you—what will startle you, but at the same time show you the solemnity of your mission, and the need of economizing the time for it.

Ye shall not have gone over—Ye shall in nowise have completed.

the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come—To understand this—as LANGE and others do—in the first instance, of Christ's own peregrinations, as if He had said, "Waste not your time upon hostile places, for I Myself will be after you ere your work be over"—seems almost trifling. "The coming of the Son of man" has a fixed doctrinal sense, here referring immediately to the crisis of Israel's history as the visible kingdom of God, when Christ was to come and judge it; when "the wrath would come upon it to the uttermost"; and when, on the ruins of Jerusalem and the old economy, He would establish His own kingdom. This, in the uniform language of Scripture, is more immediately "the coming of the Son of man," "the day of vengeance of our God" (Matthew 16:28; Matthew 24:27, Matthew 24:34; compare with Hebrews 10:25; James 5:7-9) —but only as being such a lively anticipation of His second coming for vengeance and deliverance. So understood, it is parallel with Matthew 24:14 (on which see).

Directions for the Service of Christ in Its Widest Sense (Mat. 10:24-42).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 10:23:

Matthew 10:15
Mark 6:30
Luke 9:56
Acts 8:1
Acts 12:17
Acts 14:5

 

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